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Taiwanese boxer in Paris Olympics gender row eases into final

Taiwanese boxer in Paris Olympics gender row eases into final

Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting comfortably won again at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday to ensure that the two boxers at the centre of a major gender controversy are into their respective finals.

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Medals from doping-tainted 2022 Olympic team skating awarded in shadow of Eiffel Tower

Medals from doping-tainted 2022 Olympic team skating awarded in shadow of Eiffel Tower

The medals from the doping-tainted team figure skating event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics were finally awarded during the Paris Summer Games on Wednesday, two and a half years after the controversial event.

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Morocco's Soufiane El Bakkali retains Olympic steeplechase title

Morocco's Soufiane El Bakkali retains Olympic steeplechase title

Morocco's Soufiane El Bakkali retained his Olympic 3000m steeplechase title on Wednesday to become just the third Arab to win double gold

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NASA weighs SpaceX rescue for stranded Boeing Starliner crew

NASA weighs SpaceX rescue for stranded Boeing Starliner crew

What was meant to be a weeklong trip to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first NASA astronauts to fly with Boeing could extend to eight months, with the agency considering bringing them home on a SpaceX spaceship.

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Jamaica's Roje Stona wins Olympic men's discus gold

Jamaica's Roje Stona wins Olympic men's discus gold

Jamaica's Roje Stona threw an Olympic record of 70.00 metres to win men's discus gold in Paris on Wednesday.

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Quincy Hall lunges to win Olympic 400m title

Quincy Hall lunges to win Olympic 400m title

American Quincy Hall on Wednesday became the fourth fastest man to run the 400m when he captured Olympic gold in 43.40sec to end a 16-year drought for his country in the event.

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Maduro opponent defies Venezuela high court summons

Maduro opponent defies Venezuela high court summons

Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to be the rightful winner of the country's presidential election, on Wednesday defied a Supreme Court summons over the disputed results.

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Danish PM's attacker gets jail term, to be deported

Danish PM's attacker gets jail term, to be deported

A Danish court on Wednesday handed a Polish man a four-month prison sentence and ordered him deported for punching the country's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in June.

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Honduras gang violence forces thousands from their homes

Honduras gang violence forces thousands from their homes

After criminals recently forced a family to leave their home in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, the owner again tried to rent it out, this time, to a young couple.

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Saudi taekwondo star edged out in historic Olympic women's medal pursuit

Saudi taekwondo star edged out in historic Olympic women's medal pursuit

Donia Abu Taleb narrowly missed out on becoming the first Saudi Arabian woman to win an Olympic Games medal on Wednesday.

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